Chapter 5: The Family Secret
The family secret came from the old files Cynthia sent me that evening.
I sat in the hotel room and read them.
My father had founded a small tech company.
Gavin had worked there as a junior executive.
When my father died, Gavin convinced me to sell the patents to Apex Global — the company he later claimed to have built.
The truth was I had bought the failing Apex Global using my inheritance and my father’s patents.
Gavin had never built anything.
He had married the owner and pretended to be the king.
The family secret was simple.
I had always been the one with the power.
Gavin had simply hidden it from me — and from everyone else.
I closed the files and looked out at the city lights.
The man I had loved had spent six years stealing my legacy and calling it his own.
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Now the legacy was mine again.
And I was going to make it something better.
